plainness
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Noun[edit]
plainness (usually uncountable, plural plainnesses)
- (uncountable) The condition of being plain (in all senses)
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.
- (countable) The product or result of being plain
Synonyms[edit]
- (condition of being plain—ordinary): normalcy, normaldom, normality, normalness; see also Thesaurus:normality
Translations[edit]
the condition of being plain
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